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26 August 2010

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Stories from 26 August 2010

South Korea: Controversy Overshadows Woman Climber’s World Record

South Korea's Oh Eun-sun is believed to be the first woman to have climbed the world's 14 highest mountains. One of her peaks was being disputed and bloggers have delved deeper into how this unseemly incident got formed from the start.

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Algeria: Bloggers Denounce the Exclusion of Egypt from the Algiers Book Fair

Written by Mohamed Benderouiche · Translated by Lova Rakotomalala · Middle East & North Africa

Following the tensions from a football match in Cairo between the Egyptian and Algerian football teams, Algiers Book Fair (SILA) decided to exclude Egyptian books from the event. The decision did not sit well with many Algerian bloggers.

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Malawi: Bloggers discuss freedom of speech and 2014 election

Written by Victor Kaonga · Malawi

Malawian bloggers are currently discussing the nomination of Malawian president's brother as the ruling party presidential candidate for 2014 elections and recent arrest of a Presbyterian senior pastor Rev Levi Njombole Nyondo. He is alleged to have uttered seditious words at a funeral service.

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Russia: It's not the Kremlin

Written by The Economist · Eastern & Central Europe

THIS summer Russians faced several state attempts to "filter" (selectively block) websites. And as in many other things, Russia has gone its own way with a slightly more complicated technique: regional filtering.

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China: Prostitution, Reality, Hypocrisy and Human Lives

Written by Gabriel Nada · East Asia

What good does punishing women involved in the sex trade do when the gangs, corporations, and clients are left largely untouched?

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Updates from 26 August 2010

Cuba

George Gautier writes [es] about censorship in Cuba. He says that technology has helped leak some things, but he hopes that someone is keeping track of everything that is happening in Cuba so that nothing will be lost.

• Silvia Viñas

China

In response to recent statements by a Timorese deputy, who reportedly implied that the statues of naked women at the Timor Leste Pavillion in Shanghai World Expo 2010 are not appropriate, João Paulo Esperança critically wonders [pt] if East Timorese women would be considered deprived of dignity in the past, when they used their bare breasts.

• Sara Moreira

Russia

Bono's (U2) visit to Russia [EN] turned out to be a highly politicized event. Some complain [RUS], Bono didn't tell Medvedev about the Khimki Forest Park, some admire his joint performance [RUS/EN] with Yuri Shevchuk, an opposition musician. Oleg Kozyrev asks [RUS], ”What if Bono could spend part of his energy to support the opposition?”

• Alexey Sidorenko

Pakistan

Beena Sarwar posts a personal note of Rashida Dohad of Omar Asghar Khan Foundation about her flood relief efforts in Kohistan, Pakistan.

• Rezwan

Russia

RFE/RL's The Power Vertical writes about rapper Noize MC's new song: “After spending 10 days in jail for performing a song mocking police at a music festival in Volgograd, the irrepressible rapper has released a new [song and video, RUS] — mocking the police.” Robert Amsterdam's blog calls the new song “sarcastic apology rap.”

• Veronica Khokhlova